My love, how beautiful you are - arias and cantatas by Schütz pupil Caspar Kittel

Sunday, March 30, 2025, 3 pm - Bavarian National Museum, Mars-Venus Hall

2 pm Pre-concert talk with Dr. Sven Schwannberger

Caspar Kittel (1603-1639) was a composer of the Baroque era who is rarely heard today. As a pupil of Heinrich Schütz, he was accepted into the Dresden court chapel and sent to study in Venice. He returned to the Dresden court as a theorbist and royal chamber singer and replaced Heinrich Schütz as director of the court chapel from 1638. His arias and cantatas for one to four voices were published in the same year. They are among the early examples of the stile nuovo, the modern, monodic style that Kittel brought with him from Italy to Dresden and had a significant influence on the development of the sacred and secular cantata in Germany.

Performers:
Hannah Ely - soprano
Michaela Riener - soprano
Ivo Haun - tenor, lute
Jacob Lawrence - tenor
Michael Eberth - harpsichord
Sven Schwannberger - theorbo, flute
Joel Frederiksen - bass, lute, conductor

3rd Concert of the XVII Series “Between Mars and Venus”

With the kind support of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts and the District of Upper Bavaria.